Carstairs

Carstairs Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Tarrais
Carstairs Village Green
Carstairs Location within South Lanarkshire
Population	840 (2020)[1]
OS grid reference	NS938460
Community council	Carstairs
Council area	South Lanarkshire
Lieutenancy area	Lanarkshire
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LANARK
Postcode district	ML11
Dialling code	01555
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Lanark and Hamilton East
Scottish Parliament	Clydesdale
List of places UK Scotland 55°41′45″N 3°41′28″W / 55.695967°N 3.691175°W / 55.695967; -3.691175

Carstairs (/kɑːrˈstɛərz/, Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Tarrais) is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Carstairs is located 5 miles (8 kilometres) east of the county town of Lanark and the West Coast Main Line runs through the village. The village is served by Carstairs railway station, which is served by the Caledonian Sleeper to and from London Euston. Carstairs is best known as the location of the State Hospital. Carstairs is applied to the places Carstairs Village and the village of Carstairs Junction where the railway station is situated. The two places are two completely different villages divided by 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) of land, a parkland area (Monteith Park) and the railway line.

Carstairs Village has massively expanded since 2007 with the building of Millwood Estate.